When to use it
Use it on a Sunday when you need medicine and most shops are closed.
“I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.” — The sentence in English
In “I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.” ‘I'm looking for’ is the present continuous, and ‘open’ follows the noun because ‘on Sunday’ is attached to it.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- pharmacy
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sunday
- proper nounproper noun; days of the week take a capital letter
“مجھے اتوار کو کھلی دوا کی دکان چاہیے۔” — The sentence in Urdu
In “مجھے اتوار کو کھلی دوا کی دکان چاہیے۔” the pattern ‘مجھے … چاہیے’ means ‘I need’. ‘دوا کی دکان’ (shop of medicine) is a pharmacy, ‘کھلی’ (open) is feminine for ‘دکان’, and ‘اتوار کو’ (on Sunday) comes first.
- مجھے
- pronounمیں + کو, with چاہیے
- اتوار
- nounmasculine noun 'Sunday'
- کو
- prepositionکو with a day: 'on Sunday'
- کھلی
- adjectiveadjective 'open', feminine for دکان
- دوا
- nounfeminine noun 'medicine'
- کی
- prepositionpossessive کی; دوا کی دکان = pharmacy
- دکان
- nounfeminine noun 'shop'
- چاہیے
- verbچاہنا · form: چاہیے (need) · مجھے … چاہیے 'I need'
English × Urdu: What changes from one language to the other
English describes a search, Urdu a need; English puts ‘open on Sunday’ after the noun, Urdu before it.
Example conversation
— مجھے اتوار کو کھلی دوا کی دکان چاہیے۔
— I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.
— ہسپتال والی دکان سارا دن کھلی رہتی ہے۔
— The one at the hospital is open all day.